Debates on the snap elections in Kazanluk, held at the weekend, were the central theme of morning talk shows on Bulgaria's three major television channels on June 24.

Talking about the elections and the election system in Bulgaria, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) leader Tsvetan Tsvetanov said in the morning talk show of Nova TV that the real question was whether the Cabinet could guarantee fair elections. “Is it possible that the most reputable teacher in one municipality or the most reputable doctor in one municipality fight over the oligarchy,” if the elections were held using the majoritarian system.

Bulgarian New Democracy (BND) MP Plamen Panayotov told Bulgarian National Television that “the best thing for BND is that there is unification of the rightist voters,” as it was the case with the leftist-leaning ones.  The rightist supporters should “see a strong rightist formation, which could be an alternative to BSP.”

Denislav Serbezov, leader of the Federation Active Civil Society coalition in Kazanluk told private broadcaster bTV that “the results from the elections in Kazanluk were not surprising.” The coalition was disappointed because it received 3000 votes in the first elections and now they only received half as many.

Law, Order and Justice leader Yane Yanev said that the “elections are corrupt and that is why we are the only political power until now that has the political decision to appeal the election results in Kazanluk.”